I did! I actually got pretty far too! I took a bunch of nice phonetic samples and made an alphabet (based loosely off of the Aurebesh alphabet from Star Wars) and even started making a basic vocabulary! I'd really like to finish it...

I did! I actually got pretty far too! I took a bunch of nice phonetic samples and made an alphabet (based loosely off of the Aurebesh alphabet from Star Wars) and even started making a basic vocabulary! I'd really like to finish it...

Cool!

Mine KINDA has an alphabet, but it's only used for the left half of characters. The right half is a determinative that tells the general meaning.For example, the word for "gold" (kakin) and the word for silver (ungkin) both end in the determinative "kin", which is used for metals and money. The sounds at the beginning specify what exactly it is about metals or money that is meant. Another example is sun/day (atiki) and moon/month (ukiki), both dealing with time and heavenly bodies. Although the determinative is different for the two (tiki vs. kiki), it is very similar. Almost always they match entirely however.

The one I posted above is read "pungtapuin", where "pungta" is the name of a place, and "puin" lets us know that it IS the name of a place, specifically a town or city. It is the hometown of my OC, Yuki (whose name, by the way, is actually "ang uki kapu". Names are weird in that the determinative, while it exists in writing, lacks a sound, so is effectively silent. Ang is the surname, which comes first, and Uki is the given name, which is second. Kapu is a title, given to anyone from the family of a former ruler. One of Yuki's ancestors was once a ruler, so Yuki has this title.)

I haven't ever attempted to create my own language however, I at one point had the idea to. I was wanting to create a language based on Latin at the time because I've admired Latin as a language ever since I first heard of it. Despite this, I do actually know some languages that were created by ordinary people. Esperanto is an international auxilary language created by Polish eye doctor L.L. Zamenhof. Esperanto is based on Latin and the Germanic lanuages and is spoken by over over 10,000,000 people, according to some estimations, worldwide. Lapine is another constructed language, but it was created on a far less serious scale compared to Esparnto and the other constructed languages. Lapine is the fictional language of rabbits in Watership Down by Richard Adams. Lapine is based somewhat on Arabic, but has no true origin. Some Lapine words are "Frith" ("sun"), "Inlé" ("moon"), and "Hrair" ("a lot", which is any number greater than four).